ELC Meetups · Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Krakow · every month
ELC Speakers Exclusive Club.
One talk in front of 120+ senior engineering leaders and you are a member, for good. You keep the recording, the whole community hears your name, and when the conference main stage needs speakers, members get the first call. 40+ editions in, nobody has ever bought their way into this club.
Watch past meetup talksFirst talk of your life or your fiftieth. We pick on the story, not the speaking resume.
Be part of the club
Entry costs one meetup talk. Everything below stays with you.
- 120+ senior leaders in the room
- Shortcut to the conference main stage
- Pro recording on YouTube
- Promo clips + LinkedIn push
- A speaking coach at your side
- ELC Speaker Alumni, for good
- A seat in the Alumni Slack
- Beer with the room
- A boat on the Vltava, every year
See the room you would stand in
Twelve nights a year across four cities. Recent rooms: Microsoft, Apify, Ataccama, Raiffeisenbank, CodeNOW, and a loft in Krakow.
Advantages speakers get
Eight outcomes for one evening of your time. This is what you get in return.
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120+ senior leaders hear you live
Monthly, in person, single track. CTOs, VPs and EMs in the seats, so your story lands with people who can act on it the same week.
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A shortcut to the main stage
The strongest meetup talks get invited to the ELC Conference main stage: 500+ leaders last edition. Most of our conference speakers started exactly here.
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A standing seat in the ELC Speaker Alumni Slack
A dedicated channel for ELC Speaker Alumni only: early word on offers, events and opportunities that never reach the public feed.
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The ELC Speaker Alumni boat on the Vltava
An annual invite-only boat party in Prague, alongside other ELC Speaker Alumni, ambassadors, donors and partners. Membership keeps paying you back after your talk is long done.
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A recording you can point to
Your talk lands on the ELC YouTube channel, professionally cut. That video is what gets you your next stage.
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Your name travels further than the room
A LinkedIn announcement to the community and promo clips built for you to reuse anywhere.
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You walk on stage prepared
A professional speaking coach refines your story and delivery with you before the big day. First talk ever? We pick on the story, not the resume.
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Contacts that outlast the evening
Beer with the room afterwards, and a place in a 3,100+ community across Central Europe. The people in the seats are the ones you keep running into for years.
Aiming straight for the big stage? Pitch for ELC Conference 2027 instead: 500+ leaders last edition, speakers from Netflix, Stripe and Meta.
The club, member by member
Everyone who took an ELC stage: the conference main stage and every meetup since 2024. One talk each: that is the whole entry fee, and the bar your pitch is judged against.
82 ELC speakers and counting
Vojtech Vit
ELC Meetup #38 · Jun 2, 2026
"Krakow: How Strong Tech Leaders Prove Their Impact is Worth $10M+ in 2026"
Tomasz Manugiewicz
General Manager
Grand Parade
ELC Meetup #38 · Jun 2, 2026
"Krakow: How Strong Tech Leaders Prove Their Impact is Worth $10M+ in 2026"
Yurii Bliuchak
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Emre Karabulut
acttp.org
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Vojtech Masek
FlowUp
ELC Meetup #37 · May 21, 2026
"12 Steps to Boost Your Value for 2027. Get Unstuck. Get Promoted."
Aleodor Tabarcea
Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Smart but Not Wise: Path to AI-Native Engineering Leader"
Michal Matyjek
Sr. Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The Tech Leader Profile Nobody Wants to Hire in 2026"
Rizwan Iqbal
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What am I doing here? - Engineering Management in the age of agents"
Vojta Vondra
Partner Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From Talent Pool to Product Powerhouse: How Central Europe Won Microsoft's Trust"
Tatiana Stantonian
Principal Engineer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Building AI Into Critical Systems: Lessons Learned"
Jan Zenisek
VP of Product
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Building a Creator Ecosystem - The Art of Letting Go"
Tomas Rehor
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"High Agency Is the New IQ"
Michal Poczwardowski
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Decide Like a Senior Leader: Live Lessons on Building Strong Decision-Making Habits"
Natalia Nazaruk
Engineering Squad Lead
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Debugging Self-Doubt: A Framework for Building Confidence"
David Teodorescu
Senior Product Designer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The Collapse of the Product Trio"
Cate Huston
CTO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What's my job again? Developing self-management."
Marian Kamenistak
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
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Ladislav Novak
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Most 1:1s are just surviving. Let's change that!"
Nithin SS
Head of QA
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From Doing OK to Doing Great: A 180-Day Playbook for building High Performing Team"
Jan Cerny
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Confessions of a Teal CEO: What Engineering Managers Can Steal From a Company With No Hierarchy"
Krzysztof Ras
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"I’ve Built 3 Large Technology hubs in CE: A full guide"
Viktor Didenchuk
Lead Technical Program Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The $$$ Behind the Code: How Technical Leaders Win Budget Conversations"
Petr Krebs
Head of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Stop Apologizing for Your Codebase: Taking Radical Ownership of Tech Debt."
Limor Bergman Gross
Former Director of Engineering
LBG Consulting Services
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"What Your Manager Evaluates Before Promoting You: IC → Manager → Director."
Jiri Brunclik
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Platform/DevEx/DevOps"
Anna Kozuch
Co-Founder & CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
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Jiří Helmich
Founder
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Product Management"
Jan Sovka
Product & Strategy Advisor
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Becoming the Villain: Manipulation and Politics in the Corporate Environment"
Moustafa Aboelnaga
Engineering Leader
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Same Code, Different Cultures: Managing Engineers Across Continents"
Anna Kurylo
Senior Software Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"From "we're fine" to "here's the plan": how to write status updates your leadership actually reads"
Jan Vrtiska
Engineering leadership guru
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Engineering leadership"
Goran Hielscher
Leadership Communication Trainer
THE INSPIRACY GROUP
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Why the Conversation You're Not Having Is having you!"
Ivo Klimša
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"AI development"
Jan Bleha
Employer Branding Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Employer Branding"
Jan Fried
Director of Product - Strategic Planning
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Strategy/OKRs"
Alex Ponomarev
Founder & CEO
Volt
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"The AI Talent Gap Nobody's Talking About"
Daniel Ondruj
Senior Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Burn Your Playbook: Context is Your Leadership Strategy"
Nilesh Kulkarni
Sr Engineering manager
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Complexity Is a Feature. Now What?"
Michal Licko
CEO
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Build & Lead Your First Agentic Product Team — Wake Up, Brew Coffee, Deploy Three Teams"
Mariana Ecegiova
TA Partner
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"People/HR"
Vojta Kopal
Head of Data
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Data"
Karin Van Hoecke
Board Member, Digitalization & Innovation
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
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Carol Palombini
Tech Leadership Coach & Consultant
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Build an Elevator Pitch That Works For Networking and Job Interviews"
Shaun Dudley
Host & Speaking coach
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"x"
Michal Donát
Organizational Designer
ELC Conference · Apr 16, 2026
"Value Delivery and Agility"
Kamil Kubes
VP of Engineering
Emplifi
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Michal Licko
CEO
Visionvolve
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Marian Kamenistak
Founder
ELC Meetup #36 · Mar 31, 2026
"How to Redesign Interviews for AI-native Candidates in 2026"
Jan Pačes
Director of Software Engineering
Enverus
ELC Meetup #35 · Feb 26, 2026
"From Months to Weeks: Shipping Production Code Without Writing It"
Pavel Pohorelsky
Sr. Director of Engineering
ELC Meetup #35 · Feb 26, 2026
"From Months to Weeks: Shipping Production Code Without Writing It"
Yoav Shmaria
VP R&D, SaaS Platform
Similarweb
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Sara Maldon
Head of AI Automation & Transformation
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Petr Kubelka
Engineering Manager
Mews
ELC Meetup #34 · Jan 22, 2026
"From Squads to Soloists: RIP the Engineering Team"
Eduard Kunce
Sr. Director Engineering
ELC Meetup #33 · Nov 27, 2025
"Stop Hiring Unicorns. Start Growing Leaders."
Michal Bachorik
VP of Software Engineering
Stats Perform
ELC Meetup #33 · Nov 27, 2025
"Stop Hiring Unicorns. Start Growing Leaders."
Luboš Housa
CTO
Barclays
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Jaroslav Gergič
VP of Engineering
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Michał Porzożyński
VP of Engineering
BlackLine
ELC Meetup #32 · Nov 13, 2025
"Radical Ownership: From Talk to Team Culture"
Pavel Kepka
Staff Engineer, Frontend Platform
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Rhona Ask
AI Team Lead
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Peter Malina
Director of Engineering
Kiwi.com
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Michael Olšavský
Technical Domain Lead
ELC Meetup #30 · Sep 16, 2025
"AI Dev Tools in 2025: Reality Check"
Artem Markevich
SVP
CallMiner
ELC Meetup · Aug 5, 2025
"Summer Tech Meetup"
Megi Mejdrechová
Co-founder & CTO
RoboTwin
ELC Meetup · Aug 5, 2025
"Summer Tech Meetup"
David Pereira
Product Coach, Book Author, Keynote Speaker
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Untrapping Product Teams: Are you doing product management or bullshit management?"
David Pavlik
CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"From Growth To Impact: How I Scaled My Personal Value 10x"
Martin Cízler
VP of Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The $10M Mistake: How Your Tech Strategy is Killing Your Business"
Margaux Miller
Host, TEDx Speaker, Connection Expert
MAM Media
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Conference host"
Jiří Brunclík
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"From Senior Dev to Strategic Leader: Making the Most of Staff & Principal Roles"
Juraj Masar
Co-Founder & CEO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Fireside Chat: Navigating Engineering Leadership in Startups"
Lisa Karlin Curtis
Founding Engineer & Technical Lead
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Run Towards the Fire: Why Incidents Supercharge Teams"
Jiří Mžourek
VP Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Fireside Chat: Navigating Engineering Leadership in Startups"
Zbyněk Novotný
Talent Lead
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Welcome to Hiring Hell: How to (Not) Unlock a New Level"
Jakub Svoboda
Senior Engineering Manager
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Solution Swap: integrating AI into a product instead of just labeling it "AI" (Workshop)"
Andreas Grabner
DevRel for DevOps & Platform Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Smarter, Not Just AI-er: The Real Path to Developer Efficiency"
Ladislav Novák
CEO & CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Earning Trust in R&D: The Role of Transparency"
Filip Kirschner
Founder & COO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Silent Killer of Productivity"
Petr Baudis
CTO
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"AI-Assisted Software Engineering on Enterprise Codebases: From Myth to Reality (Workshop)"
Ota Novotný
Vice Rector
University of Economics and Business
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"The Great Disruption in Education: Preparing IT Leaders for a New Era"
Andrew Kleinerman
Director of Engineering
ELC Conference · Mar 27, 2025
"Engineering Meets Business: Breaking the Communication Barrier"
Martin Dobis
CTO
Greenway
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Martina Ivaničová
Data Engineering Lead
Kiwi.com
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Lukas Margetak
Software Engineering Lead
Multitude IT Labs
ELC Meetup #19 · Sep 24, 2024
"Beyond the Grind: A Journey from Hustle to Harmony [Bratislava]"
Petr Burian
ex-CTO
Livesport
ELC Meetup #16 · Jun 6, 2024
"How to get top talent in IT and have a 90% success rate?"
Denisa Janatová
CEO
smitio
ELC Meetup #16 · Jun 6, 2024
"How to get top talent in IT and have a 90% success rate?"
Mirela Mus
Founder & CPO
Product People
ELC Meetup #15 · May 28, 2024
"Engineering & Product Optimizing Value Delivery in 2024"
Their talk titles, dates and rooms are all on the past events page. Nothing there is a product demo wearing a talk as a costume.
Topics our audience is hungry for
A starting list, not a fence. If your best story lives outside it, pitch that instead: the form has a field for exactly that.
AI-native engineering
- Running the org where agents write most of the code: what breaks first
- Who owns an agent's mistake? Accountability for autonomous AI in production
- Code review is the new bottleneck: rebuilding quality gates for AI output
- The new technical debt: how AI-written systems fail differently
Measuring what matters
- Your token bill is growing faster than your productivity. Now what?
- AI impact metrics that survive the CFO: beyond acceptance rates
- Evaluating AI dev tools without the vendor drama
- What 2,000 CEE engineering orgs should measure in 2027 (and stop measuring)
The manager's job in 2027
- The EM role is splitting in two: pick your half
- Leading the flat org: bigger spans, fewer managers, same humans
- The AI-augmented EM: which parts of your job to hand to an agent
- Back to IC: why senior leaders step off the ladder, and when you should
Talent and the human side
- The junior crisis: who trains your next seniors when agents do the junior work
- Hiring in 2027: please blink if you are human
- Burnout as a team failure mode, not a personal one
- Mentoring when learning goes quiet: growing engineers who let AI think
What wins you a speaking slot?
Every pitch is read against the same five filters, every edition. Nobody skips them.
Actionable over generic
A Monday-morning toolkit beats another framework slide.
War stories over success theater
What actually broke, and what you would do differently.
Connection over lecture
Polls, questions, energy. We want a room, not an audience.
English delivery, with pro support
We provide professional speaker coaches to refine your narrative and delivery before the big day.
Context, not sales
No vendor pitches. No product demos wearing a talk as a costume.
First talk of your life? Good. We prioritize the story over the resume, and a professional speaking coach helps you prepare if you want one.
One talk between you and the club
About 3 minutes, 9 short steps, and your answers are saved in your browser as you go, so you can leave and come back. Once we confirm your slot, we handle the rest: the room, the recording, and a speaking coach if you want one.
Submit your talkNot pay-to-pitch. Nobody buys a slot here.
Why this room is different
Everyone in the room leads engineers
CTOs, VPs, directors and engineering managers. You are not explaining what a 1:1 is. You can open at the level you actually think at.
Hosts give the room, not the slot
Microsoft, Apify, Ataccama, Make and Everpure have all hosted. None of them bought stage time. Talks are picked on content, every single edition.
40+ editions of practice
Twelve nights a year across Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Krakow. The format is settled, the audience knows the drill, and nothing about your evening is an experiment.
Questions, not polite applause
Single track means nobody is half-listening in a competing room. Expect pushback, war stories back at you, and a Q&A that runs long.
One evening, not a marathon
Two or three talks and it is done. Your session is not buried in a nine-track grid at 4pm on day two.
The room is the community
3,100+ members across Central Europe. The people in the seats are the ones you keep running into for years afterwards.
Questions speakers ask
Do I need speaking experience to give a talk at an ELC meetup?
No. First talk of your life or your fiftieth, the bar is the same: a story the room hasn’t heard. A speaking coach and an optional dry run are there before the night if you want them.
How does ELC pick talks?
On the story, not the CV. A team lead with a real scar beats a big title with a polished deck, so tell us what broke, what you did, and what it cost you.
Do I need an invitation to submit a talk?
No. The ELC call for papers is an open, public form; nobody waits to be asked.
What do I get for speaking at an ELC meetup?
Deliver one talk and you’re a member of the speakers’ club for good. Permanent, no renewal, no small print.
Are ELC meetup talks in English?
Yes, delivery is in English. The audience spans Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Kraków, so English is the shared language of the room.